April 16, 2015Label Traxx introduced several new features for digital label printers at DcoopX. The event, which took place March 5-7 in Washington DC, is the annual HP Indigo users group meeting, conference and exhibition. At DscoopX, Label Traxx unveiled an enha…

April 16, 2015Once again, Durst is hosting “Durst Digital Days” – a three-day international open house for customers, news media, and other interested parties in the professional printing industry. This year’s event is set for April 1…

April 16, 2015Gallus recently hosted visitors to the the research and development center of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen in Wiesloch-Walldorf, Germany, for the first Gallus Digital Label Forum. Highlighting the event was a live demonstration of the DCS 340, the new…

April 16, 2015Graphic Labels, a label manufacturer in Orlando, FL, USA, sought advanced digital label printing, because many of its customers demanded short run orders with fast turnaround. The company’s three flexo presses require a lot of prep time –…

Mark Lusky || April 16, 2015Noted author and blogger Seth Godin recently blogged about the rise of micro production and marketing leading to the fall of mass production and mass media marketing. The days of creating mass quantities of stuff, then marketing it to the masses thro…

April 16, 2015It has been unkindly remarked that every edition of Narrow Web Europe reports on some aspect of beer, wine or spirits labels. This has nothing to do with your correspondent’s drinking habits but simply reflects the importance of this sector of…

John Penhallow || March 9, 2015Violent exchange rate fluctuations have been rare in recent years. This year looks like the exception. In late January, and to general surprise, the Swiss Central Bank stopped intervening to hold down the value of the Swiss franc. Within minutes, the…

March 9, 2015EFI Connect, EFI’s annual users group conference, recently concluded its largest edition to date with a record 1500 attendees descending on the Wynn Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, NV, USA. Also on hand were more than 70 printing industry analy…

March 9, 2015RDP digital and Northern Graphic Solutions have announced the first sale of an IPT digital print conversion system to the Canadian label printing market. The JFlex870 is engineered and manufactured by RDP digital – a division of RDP Marathon in…

March 9, 2015Spinnaker Coating, LLC, a manufacturer of pressure sensitive paper and film products, announces a portfolio of products tested and approved by Domino for use in the OEM’s N610i digital label press.
“Understanding that digital printing is…

March 9, 2015Xeikon has announced the first installation of the new Cheetah digital label press, just months after the label printing system was released. The recipient of the press is UK-based Mercian Labels, a label converter that was one of L&NW’s Co…

January 26, 2015The new DPR Scorpio Plus digital label cutting and finishing system has arrived in Canada. It is an all-in-one finishing system that laminates and digitally cuts labels to a precise size and shape, removes the waste matrix and slits and rewinds label…

John Penhallow || January 26, 2015Writing this in France at the start of 2015, your correspondent wonders why the French came bottom in a poll of forty countries for “confidence in the future,” while the same poll shows that over 80% of French people say they are “h…

January 26, 2015Canadian developer and manufacturer iSys Label has announced a partnership with UniNet as OEM of its label printing technology. The agreement went into effect on September 1 and authorizes UniNet to distribute the line of printers throughout its glob…

January 26, 2015The Xeikon Café, an event hosted by the digital press manufacturer at company headquarters in Belgium, was honored at the third edition of the IBIS Communication Awards. The awards honor the best Belgian communication campaigns and communicato…

January 26, 2015Label converter Repacorp has invested in three new presses. It has purchased a Domino N610i digital label press for high-speed label runs and a Domino K600i, to be attached to a flexographic press, for high-speed variable data printing.
The two Domi…

January 26, 2015The digital press manufacturer Durst has announced the first placement of its Tau LFS 300 UV inkjet digital label press in North America at TLF Graphics.
TLF Graphics, which is based in Rochester, NY, acquires its first piece of Durst equipment and…

January 26, 2015Gallus has recently introduced the DCS 340, a digital label printing machine, at Gallus Innovation Days in September 2014. The Switzerland-based company, recently fully acquired by Heidelberg, is preparing for a market launch at Labelexpo 2015 in Bru…